Marginalia — The Historian's Daughter

An Interview with Rashida Murphy

Charlotte Guest Rashida Murphy The Historian's Daughter

An Interview with Rashida Murphy

An interview between Samuel Cox, Publishing Intern, and Rashida Murphy, author of The Historian's Daughter._____________________________________________________________________________ 1. Your characters try to forge new lives for themselves in three countries: India, Iran and Australia. What does your novel say about the concept of ‘home’? I think immigrants such as myself, who have spent more time away from than in their ‘home’ country, find the concept troublesome. My characters have connections to, and a longing for, a home they have left or cannot return to, yet make themselves at home wherever they are. I wanted to explore the idea that we are all...

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